No Countess, Please, Thatcher Tells Paper
Reuters
LONDON —
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has dismissed speculation that she wants to be a countess.
“I wish to make it clear that I have not sought and do not seek a hereditary peerage,” Thatcher says in a letter being printed in the Times of London newspaper today.
Her letter followed news reports that the government planned to offer her the hereditary title of countess after the next general election, when she plans to retire from the House of Commons.
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